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189423763London: Newnes 1894. A first edition first issue of 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes' published by Newnes in 1894. Original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and Strand Library design on upper covers and gilt label on spine. A very good or better copy without inscriptions small blindstamp to the top of the endpaper accompanied by a name gutters are uncracked and very good indeed some rubbing to the corners and extremities. A much nicer copy than is usually encountered. A collection of detective stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. It includes famous cases such as "The Musgrave Ritual" "The Greek Interpreter" and "The Final Problem" where Holmes confronts Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. The collection deepens Holmes's character reveals his brother Mycroft and mixes clever deductions with gothic atmosphere danger and Victorian mystery making it one of the most memorable Holmes volumes. Newnes hardcover
18984972London: Smith Elder & Co. 1898 1898. Inscribed by Conan Doyle. Second impression published four weeks after the first printing. Small 8vo. 173x100mm. pp. viii 136. Blue buckram decorated in gilt to upper cover and lettered in gilt on the spine. Some rubbing to extremities and to joints and fading to spine. Some toning to the uncut edges but otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Title page is inscribed "With A Conan Doyle's kind regards. Oct 1899". On page 45 at the end of "A Ballad of the Ranks" Conan Doyle has added in manuscript and dated October 1899 a final eight line verse which begins: "Who carries the gun A lad from over the sea Australian Canadian All of the same old tree." This additional verse was written specially written by Conan Doyle for a concert at the London Press Club in November 1899 where it was sung by Franklin Clive see Ashbourne News Telegraph 10th November 1899. It seems not to have been included in any published versions of the poem and so represents an original unpublished writing by Conan Doyle in his own hand. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1898 hardcover
1892150680London: George Newnes 1892. First edition first issue of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic work starring literature's most famous detective with the misprint of "Violent Hunter" for "Violet Hunter" on page 317. Octavo original pictorial black and gilt-stamped light blue cloth patterned endpapers all edges gilt. With numerous in-text illustrations by Sidney Paget. In very good condition. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes which first appeared in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. Collected in the same sequence which is not supported by any fictional chronology the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. Stories include A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League A Case of Identity The Boscombe Valley Mystery The Five Orange Pips The Man with the Twisted Lip The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle The Adventure of the Speckled Band The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor The Adventure of Beryl Coronet and The Adventure of the Copper Beeches. George Newnes hardcover
